Kanatal
Kanatal is a small village and a hill station in the state of Uttarakhand, India. Kanatal is 78 km from Dehradun, 38 km from Mussoorie and 12 km from Chamba. It is on the Chamba-Mussoorie road and nearly 300 km from Delhi. You can be blessed with snowfall at Kanatal during the months of December, January and February. Monsoon months receive heavy rainfall to nourish the greenery of this region making it a must visit destination.Kanatal has an interesting history which dates back to some decades when a small lake also known as “taal” or pond had dried up. When it dried up, people began to refer to it as kaana taal. The name of the nearby area is Kanatal. In Hindi, the word kaana usually refers to a dry well or pond.Surkanda Devi is a temple in Kaddukhal, dedicated to Sati. Surkanda is where the head of Sati had fallen after Shiva carried her on his trishool after she set herself on fire. The temple is famous for its architectural beauty and its location – perched at an altitude 2,700 meters that offers a 360 degree view of the surrounding region along with the snowy Himalayan peaks. This temple is 8 km on the road to Mussoorie to Kaddukhal
